Unicode string woes [SOLVED]

[julescoder]

Hi, i am trying to converting a float value to display in a static text label.
Problem is how do i convert it to wchar_t , the type that static text label requires. Here a snippet so far:

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std::wstringstream s1;
std::wstringstream s2;

s1 << reciever.MouseState.Position.X;
s2 << reciever.MouseState.Position.Y;

text->setText( (s1.str() + s2.str()));

I get error :
error C2664: 'irr::gui::IGUIElement::setText' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' to 'const wchar_t *'
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[hybrid]

You have to use .c_str()

[julescoder]

The wstringstream object does not have the .c_str() function. I am using visual c++. Is there any other way to do it ?

[Memorial76]

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=37413

try with std::string to wchar_t*

[Bate]

looks horrible but should work

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text->setText( stringw( std::wstring( s1.str() + s2.str() ).c_str() ).c_str() );

[hybrid]

You have to use c_str() on the created wstring object, not on the stringstreams. Just take your first code and add it inside the outer braces. It's also almost what Bate suggested, just one constructor less (which is already implicit by the operator+)

[julescoder]

It worked. Thanx for all your help. I' m from a c# background, so getting this conversion of different types of strings was confusing.

the code :

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text->setText(std::wstring( s1.str() + s2.str() ).c_str());